Summary
Trump’s transition team is reportedly mired in infighting at Mar-a-Lago, with factions clashing over control and strategy for his return to the White House.
The Washington Post detailed heated disputes, including shouting matches, name-calling, and physical altercations.
Three key factions have emerged: one led by Donald Trump Jr. and JD Vance, another by Trump ally Susie Wiles, and a third by Linda McMahon.
High-profile confrontations involve figures like Boris Epshteyn, Elon Musk, and Vance, highlighting tensions over Cabinet picks and leaks, further fracturing the team.
In other words; a bunch of ultra wealthy nepo-babies with the IQ/EQ comparable to the average 14 year old boy are hanging out at a luxury country club deciding the future of our nation, and despite having collectively been in the game for almost a decade, they still have no idea what they’re doing.
We’ve come full circle, back to the “founding fathers” in terms of letting the wealthy few decide our future, yet our modern cast of wealthy few are wealthy fools who likely wouldn’t survive a week without their personal assistants.
because each and everyone of them think that they are the real shit
Yeah the sith had issues with infighting too, kind of a mark of authoritarian takeover.
It was nice having a break from these news stories for four years with a boring Biden administration.
What break? The media couldn’t give up their orange addiction. Remember how much news there was for every trial?
I didn’t bother to pay attention because he wasn’t at the levers of power the whole time. It was bliss.
Hopefully they just tear themselves apart from the inside and everyone just bails and we can have another election with some decent fucking candidates.
Trump’s team is slowly discovering why we have government and bureaucracy.
they must have not got the memo that their infighting is exactly what boss Putin wanted.
Media companies have realized what foreign governments have known for years. If you want all the inside knowledge of what goes on in the Trump White House, send a spy to Mar-a-lago. You don’t need clandestine agents when Trump and his crew discuss all this stuff openly, and all you have to do is pay to get in.
Yet another headline you’d never have to worry about seeing under any other normal presidency.
I feel like if we’re to get out of this unscathed it’ll be because of this kind of infighting. AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
We’re not getting out of this unscathed.
The infighting and arguing is, at best, the grifters trying to secure the best grift for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
No you’re right, even if it’s just chaos and infighting for the next four years we’re all going to suffer
AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
These people are so mature and well adjusted that this could be accomplished by simply walking up to Trump and saying “did you hear what Vance said about you last night?” and then walking up to Vance and saying “did you hear what Elon said about you?” and then asking Elon “did you hear what Don Jr said about you?” No elaboration, let their “imaginations” run wild.
There is probably at least one troll doing exactly that lol
Honestly if I had the influence required id worm my way in just to do that. It emphasizes factionalism and forces them at eachothers throats.
Oh no! I hope they don’t kill each other! That would be a tragedy 🙄
I see a bunch of middle school boys
This is why the Media helped Trump win. So they will have endless stories like this.
I hated it so much last time. Too stressful. When Biden won in 2020 it felt like a weight was lifted off me.
I see a lot of takes like “The media learned nothing from 2016/2020.”
My enby in Christ, our blessed ever perfect capitalism means they can NEVER ‘learn’ or even ‘care’ about what is best for the country. It will only ever be about the click$.
Late night talk show hosts are salivating at the thought of the next four years.
Maybe not for him, as he’s not a traditional late night host, but for the rest of them, definitely. It’s all they talked about for four years.
Because it was all they COULD talk about for 4 years. He monopolized the media landscape, pushing out much better material left and right.
Besides, being funny about something that’s already both a joke and a tragedy is NOT anywhere near as easy as you might think.
Especially not when millions of people will send you death threats if you go to far and millions of people will stop watching if you go too easy.
And that’s not even mentioning the real possibility that he might make mocking him illegal.
No need to bootlick talk show hosts. There is always plenty going on in the world. They choose to discuss him every night. To say that’s all they could talk about is gross hyperbole. They are lazy. The writers are lazy. Trump is some of the lowest hanging fruit in the last 50 years.
No need to bootlick talk show hosts
If that’s what you think was going on, I hesitate to read the rest of your comment… 🤦
There is always plenty going on in the world
Yeah, but talk show hosts have to stay relevant. They have to make jokes about what people are talking about.
What people are talking about is mainly determined about what legacy media covers and what goes viral on social media.
If both are dominated by whatever bullshit the Mango Mussolini is doing, the talk shows gotta talk about what the Mango Mussolini is doing.
To say that’s all they could talk about is gross hyperbole
No, it’s exaggeration for simplicity to make a point without getting bogged down in irrelevant details
They choose to discuss him every night.
THAT’S hyperbole, though. Hypocrisy too, by the looks of it.
They are lazy. The writers are lazy
More hypocrisy with your lazy and narrow minded jumping to conclusions 🙄
I was right. I shouldn’t have read on.
The fact that you’re defending late night talk show hosts so hard is odd. Do you work for one of the shows?
No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to discus the orange man. It’s a choice. This can’t be argued.
Haha. An honest liar, that Colbert.
Traditionally, disputes like this were resolved by all members of one faction having unfortunate fatal accidents in the same night.
Pistols at dawn!
I was thinking more about long knives.
Why did I think of the one at stone henge back in the medieval era first and not the Nazi one?
couldn’t win an election
Yeah that’ll happen when your populace is largely morons who vote for someone who proposed tariffs as a way to lower prices. Yep always the evil Democrats causing everyone to be such morons.
The same people that boycotted a better deal because they weren’t able to understand 1/3 > 1/4.
Education important. School good.
Ok, but admittedly, they can’t beat a bunch of morons. It’s shameful. You should be embarrassed for supporting these impotent hacks.
It would appear that what you advocate for would be even more beneficial to the bunches of morons. What’s more embarrassing and impotent than giving up?
Giving up what? The dems were never more poised then they were this election to end trump for good. They failed. There is no comeback. They haven’t even done the work to figure out where they went wrong. They are a sunk cost and for you to put your political energy into this party is a complete waste.
Welcome to the decent into authoritarianism. The longer it takes you to snap out of this delusion that the dems are going to save you the sooner we can mount a real counter.
All of these nihilistic takes never quite seem to address the elephant in the room, which is that it’s easier to score from 3rd base than 1st. You can whine that our politicians don’t place our choice issues as their number one because of money, but ignorance of the party that wants to wind the clock back is looming 100% of the time, so your arguments are moot for people living in reality. Objectively, the best thing you can do for improving the party is to vote in Democratic primaries or run for office. Do you think people like Rashida Talib aren’t doing enough either? It’s funny you mention delusions, as if everyone here is like, “I voted, so I’m done for 2-4 years” while being active on political news. In other words, if anyone is reading your take, it automatically doesn’t apply to them.
There are many lessons to be learned for the Democrats here, I think it’s too early to tell if they’ve learned anything. Yelling at them with constructive advice is still more important than doomering on a forum.
Nihilism, to me, is to put faith in the democrats who will lose thier fucking hat to fascists and never feel a bit of shame. That’s nihilism.
I’ve given them 8 fucking years to get their shit together and what happen. Biden who said he wouldn’t run again drug his feet and shoved kamala through. That is not strategy, that’s a throw. Your fucking insane looking back at this and not seeing how the democrats took the goodwill of kind hearted people only to roll over and die when it mattered most.
I’m pragmatic, I’ll always put my vote where it needs to go. I can not give the DNC any ounce of support and I will not be looking for any wins from them any time soon. The damage is done. What the GOP are reaping cannot be undone in 2 years. 4 years. I’d venture 100. Especially when the democrats come out with a showing like this.
“Faith” is clearly the misunderstanding you have here. You don’t choose to drive on the right side of the road because you have Faith you’ll get home safe, you do it because if you drive head-on into traffic, you’ll die. The “Faith” is that the alternative is worse. Are you arguing that the Republicans aren’t worse? Or that everyone reading your post voting for a shitty third party that does virtually no local elections would have led to a better outcome? We have no Faith the Democrats will do good, that’s why we need to shout at them and improve the party with, perhaps maybe our own membership. Where is that energy better directed oh wise sage?
